Liverpool One wins special civic trust award

BDP’s Liverpool One Masterplan won the Special Award for Sustainability at the Civic Trust Awards ceremony held on 12 March at St George’s Hall in Liverpool. The awards recognise the very best in architecture, design, planning, landscape and public art, and are given to projects of the highest quality design, but only if they are judged to have made a positive cultural, social or economic contribution to the local community.

Liverpool One, already a winner of numerous top design and industry awards, opened in October 2008 and earlier this month celebrated its 40 millionth customer.

The civic trust citation reads: A nationally significant mixed-use project based on a cohesive masterplan of new and refurbished buildings, streets and spaces - all of which have been designed to embrace a wide variety of uses and activities. There are new shopping and leisure activities, as well as new residential units, hotels, offices and related uses. The masterplan identifies six districts - each with its own distinctive character which cover over 42 acres of the city centre. Liverpool One has seen the construction of 30 new buildings designed by a number of different local, national and internationally renowned architects to achieve a balance of scale and styles, adding to Liverpool’s already rich architectural heritage. The result is a series of buildings, structures and places of distinction which demonstrate a high quality of design thought and execution. The project presents itself as an elegant, exiting element of engineered artwork, with an extraordinary high level of originality. Liverpool One is a very positive, highly sustainable, useable and inclusive destination, integral to the regeneration of Liverpool and an excellent example of how public realm and civic space can join a city.

BDP also received commendations at the awards ceremony for Navigation Warehouse in Wakefield, the conversion of a Grade II* listed grain warehouse dating from 1792, and also for the restoration of the Grade II listed Leeds Grand Theatre. BDP’s public realm scheme for Baldock Town Centre gained National Panel Special Recognition, and BDP was structural engineer for Joseph Chamberlain 6th Form College which received a commendation.